“Our understanding was that it could be accepted by the city without it being completed,” said Da Silva, who can see Charity from his house. But in an email to Da Silva from Niamh O’Laoghaire, the director of the Varley Art Gallery, the statue will be set in stone and then removed. Da Silva says the entire process has been mired in confusion. Da Silva says that can’t happen soon enough. “There’s been so much confusion around this that I don’t think I will be happy now, until they finally move the thing,” he said.

Source: thestar December 04, 2017 10:52 UTC